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M. ANDREWS Y JOURNAL BEARING.

No. 448,624. Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

MARION A. ANDREWS, OF SYRAOUSE, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIALF TO .LAMES M. ANDREVS, OF SAME PLACE.

JOURNAL-BEARiNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,624, dated March 24, 1891.

application filed .Tune 19, 1890. Serial No. 356,019. (No model.)

To afZZ whom. t may concern: Fig. G, or is centrally geared with plain lands Be it known that I, MARION A. ANDREWS, on each side of the gearing. of Syracuse,inthe county of Onondaga,in the B is the loose ring, provided with gearing State of New York, have invented new and upon its inner wall and with gearing upon its 5 useful Improvements in Journal-Bearings, of periphery, as shown, and these inner and 55 which the following, taken in connection with outer gear-teeth can extend across the whole the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, width'of the ring, or only part way, in the latand exact description. ter case leaving a rim on each side of the My invention relates to journahbearings gear-teeth. Between this ring and the casing [o which are designed to reduce the friction of I mount the idlers 0r wheels a, geared upon 6o the axle-shaft or `arbor therein, and consetheir peripheries to mesh with the loose ring quently reduce the draft proportionally to the and with the casing when that is geared. reduction of the friction. These idlers may be geared clear across their My object is to produce an improved jourperipheries or only centrally, With a plain rim 15 nal-bearing of the anti-friction species, in on each side of the teeth. They are also sep- 65 which a geared sleeve is secured upon the arately mounted upon arbors 3, which are in axle or shaft, engaging with like gearing turn mounted or secured in annular rings al, upon the inner wall of a ring fitting loosely equidistant from each other, and which hold over and considerably larger than the sleeve, the rollers apart from each other.

2o said ring being also geared upon its periph- The axle 5 is externally geared adjacent to 7o ery, and in which anti-friction geared rollers its end, or a geared sleeve is secured onto the engagewith and support and steady thering plain end of the axle, and this gear meshes in its travel around the sleeve, said rollers with the gearing on the inner wall of the being mounted upon separate arbors mountloose ring. Then as the axle rotates it cari z 5 ed in annular rings and held apart from each ries the gear with it. This rotates the loose 75 other by their arbors, said rollers having also ring, and the ring rotates the idlers, and all an exterior bearing against the inner wall of being geared together their action is positive the casing. and not dependent upon friction or upon the My invention consists in the several novel frictional engagement of the smooth axle with 3o features of construction and operation herethe smooth inner wall of the loose ring, and 8o inafter described, and which are specifically of the smooth periphery of the ring with set forth in the claims hereto annexed. smoothfaced friction-rollers. It is also ap- My bearing is constructed as follows, referparent that only one of the idlers may be ence being had to the accompanying draw geared and the other left plain to accomplish 3 5 ings, in which-n the saine joint rotation, the plain idlers being 8 5 Figure l is a front elevation with the cap grooved to fit over the gearing and bear with or cover of the casing removed. Fig. 2 is a frictional contact upon the periphery of the vertical transverse section. Fig. S is a secring outside of the gearing. tion taken on radial lines from the center lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire 4o outward both ways through the center of two to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is- 9o of the friction rollers, as online X Xin Fig. l. l. A sectional j ournal-casing having an end- Fig. i is a sectional detail showing the inner less geared trackway upon its inner wall, a wall of the casing. Fig. 5 is a vertical secloose ring geared internally and externally, tional detail of the loose ring removed. Fig. and geared idlers meshing with the geared 45 Gis adetail showingageared friction-idler in trackway within the casing and With that 9 1 gear with the inner wall of the casing. upon the periphery of the ring, in combina- A is the casing, constructed in sections, tion with the axle and the gear thereon passwhich together create an inner circular wall ing loosely through the ring and meshing l, and 2 is a projecting endless trackway with the gear upon its inner wall.

5o upon. this wall, which is geared as shown in 2. Asectionaljournal-casinghavingan endroo less geared traekway upon its inner Wall, a loose rinej geared internally and externally, geared idlers mounted upon separate arbors and meshing with the geared traekway Within the casing and with that upon the periphery of the ring, and annular rings carrying the arbors of the idlers, in combination with the axle and the gear thereon passing' looeely through the rin;r and meshing With the gear upon its inner Wall. 1o

In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand this 90th (lay of Hay, 1890.

MARON A. ANDREWS. n presence of- HOWARD DENISON, EV. MACK. 

